Whatcha Reading?

[fidrych]

God Bless You Mr Rosewater

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Im a Vonnegut fan

I worked on and live near the La' Courte' Oreilles Reservation. History in high school and well into college didnt really paint an honest picture Native America. This book is pretty enlightening.

[IpcSteveYoung]

Originally Posted by fidrych

God Bless You Mr Rosewater

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Im a Vonnegut fan

I worked on and live near the La' Courte' Oreilles Reservation. History in high school and well into college didnt really paint an honest picture Native America. This book is pretty enlightening.

It'll probably run parallels with The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee with the timeline, but I'd recommend also reading Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. Great read.

[majestik101]

Currently reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Next, I'm going to read Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

[scotthenrichs]

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson...so far a pretty good sci-fi book.

[finfangfan]

Haven’t read it yet, but my book club’s May book will be…

Tower by Bae Myung-hoon

Tower is a series of interconnected stories set in Beanstalk, a 674-story skyscraper and sovereign nation. Each story deals with how citizens living in the hypermodern high-rise deal with various influences of power in their lives: a group of researchers have to tell their boss that a major powerbroker is a dog, a woman uses the power of the internet to rescue a downed fighter pilot abandoned by the government, and an out-of-towner finds himself in charge of training a gentle elephant to break up protests. Bae explores the forces that shape modern life with wit and a sly wink at the reader.

[Gibberish]

Me and the wife were trying to do some math last year and guess how many books I've read in my lifetime. We figure north of 20k. This will add context to my reply to the topic

I am reading 7 books right now. I finish 2-3 every other day and if I am engrossed in the others I don't pick up anything else. if I am half and half I will. I finish 5+ a week. I got to point back in 2017 where I was buying 500+ lots from ebay from 3 different sellers who were flipping storage finds. Guessing a lot of book stores went under in 2015 as that was the end date for most books. I would take what I wanted and flip the rest to the local McKay's book store. ODDLY I was spending 600-800 per lot, id end up with 100-150 books for me, and my flip credit would usually be around 1500.00 or 550ish cash. Those lots rarely exist now, but I do look

I've been reading paperbacks since 1977. My 1st book was Piers Anothny's battle circle. My "bible" was battlefield earth in 1982. Father's friend bought me a copy and I would say i've read it north of 40 times. The same would go for Dune. I WILL LITERALLY pick up MORE each time i read a book more than once.

I am currently reading The Last War series (Peter Bostrom). Knocked out 1 and 2 yesterday, starting 3 in a few. I am also reading, and I re-read a lot of his books, Ben Bova's Asteroid wars omnibus. Big book housing all 5 books 1634 Flint and Weber, the baltic war, and it is SLOW. The previous 3 books were terrific but they ended up bogged down with too many SWEEPING, historical changes and they apparently wrote long -winded side books to cover their stories. Not sure if Ill continue the series. Also Re-Read the neutronium Alchemist , book 3 of Nights Dawn war by my most favorite of modern writers, Peter hamilton. If you like cerebral, science-backed, scifi, he's your guy Also, they are so meaty. 1200 pages per book, so you get your bang as well. And finally ( I seem to be doing a lot of re-reading lately, a lack of writer interest maybe) I am re-reading the EMberverse series by S.M Stirling. GREAT alternate history/What If series. No dragging parts in the 12 books ive read (Ive not read the last 3 but this is my 3rd re-read in 4 years of 1-10 and 2nd of 11 and 12)

I dont make the pretensions that I am cultured in my reading. I like my Sci-Fi and I am fine with inane concepts as long as the story is crafted well If I wanted to learn about reality id watch a TV program. My books are to engage the unknown or unknowable, not reflect on the known

[ssbledsoe]

Got bored with “Just Keep Buying” - Nick Magguilli - on vacation

Started “Radical Markets” - Eric Posner & Glen Weyl - but didn’t get more than a chapter or 2

Haven’t been able to pick it up the last week or so

[fidrych]

Originally Posted by IpcSteveYoung

It'll probably run parallels with The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee with the timeline, but I'd recommend also reading Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. Great read.

Thank you. Ill make sure to read

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by Gibberish

Me and the wife were trying to do some math last year and guess how many books I've read in my lifetime. We figure north of 20k. This will add context to my reply to the topic

I am truly impressed. I hope I've read a few thousand, but that might be generous.
Just as a practical matter, you would have to be what the rest of us would consider a "speed reader". I can read pretty fast, but so as to not have to go back and reread something, I slow it down when the essential elements start showing up in the stories.

Why, I'll bet you were able to read this reply before I finished typing it!

[thomasdown92]

I'm glad someone mentioned and read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown - such an amazing work. I'm reading There There and it's been a great read. Tommy Orange's work is a pioneering work of the New Native Renaissance. A gripping heart-wrenching tale of isolation and displacement of the Native American community - highly recommend it.

[sthoemke]

Just finished...

[JeremyNick]

Originally Posted by thomasdown92

I'm glad someone mentioned and read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown - such an amazing work. I'm reading There There and it's been a great read. Tommy Orange's work is a pioneering work of the New Native Renaissance. A gripping heart-wrenching tale of isolation and displacement of the Native American community - highly recommend it.

I’ll have to add this to my list. Thanks!

[gowizards0]

Project Hail Mary was amazing. Sci Fi that is not too Sci Fi-y. Same author as the martian.

[eastbayak]

The Ghost Map

[awz50]

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[49erRCCollector]

I'm a political junkie - not "politics" but theory and "how the sausage got made" kind of stuff.

Finally cracking into BEST AND BRIGHTEST by David Halberstram.

not really a fiction reader most of the time but finished Nick Roberts' THE EXORCIST'S HOUSE which was like fast food, not amazing but scratched a horror itch.

[majestik101]

Currently reading through the 100 Bullets Complete Deluxe Edition Collection that I found at a yard sale a few weeks ago. About halfway through Book II.

[jdandns]

Stephen King, man, I'll tell you what.



This book was published as a paperback original in 1979 under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman, when the author was writing 3 books a year, and the publisher didn't want him him competing with himself for sales. That nom de plume was used, unknown to the general public, for five King books.

Soon to be a major motion picture (and TV reality series, probably).

[Twalk1975]

Dystopian story in which Las Vegas controls the Colorado River and the rest of the Southwest is screwed. The title character enforces Vegas' control of the water. I'm about a third of the way through, and the main character just got to Phoenix. It's an interesting imagining of what my home city will look like when the water runs out.



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[hairysasquatch]

Originally Posted by jdandns

Stephen King, man, I'll tell you what.



This book was published as a paperback original in 1979 under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman, when the author was writing 3 books a year, and the publisher didn't want him him competing with himself for sales. That nom de plume was used, unknown to the general public, for five King books.

Soon to be a major motion picture (and TV reality series, probably).

Appreciate the tip - did not know this!

[sonnyday]

Great storyteller. Just finished last night

[ssbledsoe]

Originally Posted by jdandns

Stephen King, man, I'll tell you what.



This book was published as a paperback original in 1979 under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman, when the author was writing 3 books a year, and the publisher didn't want him him competing with himself for sales. That nom de plume was used, unknown to the general public, for five King books.

Soon to be a major motion picture (and TV reality series, probably).

Cocaine is quite the motivator

[ssbledsoe]

Originally Posted by gowizards0

Project Hail Mary was amazing. Sci Fi that is not too Sci Fi-y. Same author as the martian.

“Read” this on Audible a couple months back. I thought it was better than The Martian.

[eastbayak]

Just finished The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind today!

[LRV]